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Martha Burtis on Yahoo! Pipes
Last Thursday, March 31st, my students from #nmd2011 and #mcw2011 and I had the pleasure of a beautiful and gracious online class by Martha Burtis from UMW. The class was on Yahoo! Pipes, since I wanted my students to have an idea of visual programming for mashups. Thanks to Martha we all had an awesome intro to the theme, which was great for me too, because I had only a very superficial knowledge of Pipes.
Martha did a few examples and though our side of the connection was pretty lame she managed to go on and let us understand the basic ideas. I enjoyed my students’ questions and I think she too liked to answer some of these genuinely interested people!
Now, Martha Burtis has posted a video of her class, split into three parts: here they are: PART I at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hezn8wuBZeE; I will post the others as they are available. Plus, here is the link to her Pipes:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3a7bb115e6d2a79bd4864d59959c0c34
so we can practice, which we’ll do tomorrow in class (Tuesday, April 5).
We will also think about a couple of assignments…
Last, I can’t forget Martha did all this in the spirit of “Give it Away”, as she put it in her post of March 8 “Give it Away, Give it away now” (was it a coincidence, this was Women’s Day?):
Basically, I’m thinking about on a fairly regular basis (once a month?) offering up (for free) my services for someone who needs help with something I know how to do.
[…]
The only “payment” I’d request would be that the person do the same for someone else (offering up a free number of hours of service doing something he/she was good at.)
So, here I am: My next post, out tonite or tomorrow, will be my own Give it Away! And I’ll setup a list of things I can do for others, as well as the rules of the game.
Thanks Martha, twice!
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#letsbuydelicious #2 & #ds106 #webstories
What better occasion to talk about Delicious’ demise and Yahoo’s foul sale than ds106’s latest assignment. In my last post I told myself (and a few have agreed through Twitter) that there is no reason why some crowd of people cannot raise the money and buy Delicious from Yahoo. I really think it as a Quixotesque entreprise, but one which may produce a Delicious for the people and by the people, a Delicious which may even be able to inovate further, not only in social bookmarking per se but in other areas as well, like analytics for instance. So, how do we do it?
Meanwhile, here is my assignment, in which I remade (through that wondrous add-on called Firebug –which I discovered thanks to ds106!) the newspage from The Guardian that told the story about Delicious. I had a really nice time doing it, and I learned something about CSS and HTML as well.
*** JUST ADDED***
This sale of Delicious seems to me even more suspicious after reading a very interesting post by Daniel Rezac on Tool MD: Crunchbase.com checks the health of your favorite Ed Websites. Just look at this graph: you’ll notice that Diigo, in a way Delicious’ main competition, has seen a steady decline in the number of unique visitors during 2010 and 2011. Which means: Why do you #$&**!} are selling Delicious?